Climate Change denier Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, has received $1.25 million in funding from energy companies, according to a report released by Greenpeace. Wei-Hock Soon has been a popular name cited by most of the climate change deniers and politicians trying to block legislation on climate change.

According to records received by Greenpeace under freedom of information suggests that Willie Soon received $1.25 million from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and Koch brothers foundation over the last 14 years. Southern Company emerged as a single largest fundi...